hello there...I am newbie as far as Linux is concerned so I would really appreciate your help...I have just finished an upgrade of my system and world and tried an "emerge -pv --depclean" giving me that 25 packages have to be removed...I have read from other threads that this is a really very useful tool instead of "emerge --depclean"...so I would like to know which way should I use unclepine and if there is a way to check results between unclepine and depclean?? which one would you recommend I should use?? thanks in advance...

that means that I have all these versions installed?? I guess I should remove all versions but the latest...but how do I know if the latest is needed by some other programme?? or else I could remove it...

for example unclepine doesn't mention that I should remove "app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r3 (3.1)"...doing a "unclepine -db docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r3" it tells me "No packages matches your selection"...is this right?? "equery list docbook-sgml" shows that there is a package existing with that name...

you are right...it says that the versions mentioned in "equery list" not mentioned in unclepine are needed by app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14...but now another question pops up...is it posiible that both 4.1-r3 and 3.1-r3 are required by the application I mentioned just before?? maybe my system has something misconfigured?? isn't 3.1-r3 supposed to be depricated by 4.1-r3?? I mean does it have any real use on my system??

Edit: isn't app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.14 sattisfied with just one version (the newer one)?? why does it also need the older ones??

for this kind of question best thing to do is inspecting Ebuild
As i told you there are often cases of bad written ebuild which leads unclepine to act wrongly!
..there's no solution to bad written ebuild...

Me too... I think I'm quite addicted to it.
I think he's on holidays, so we just have to wait until after the 6 of january.
I wonder... is there anyone here who programs in python and is so kind as to try to make a patch?
We'll be very very grateful.

I have gone over it and it seems portage now comes with a portage_dep module
so ratehr then importing 2 fn from the portage module (which now fails) they need to be imported from this new portage_dep module

in short the main import now has a couple of calls removed, and a new import added to call from portage_dep.
I have done a find&replace (since dep_parenreduce was renamed as well).
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